The following page is a translation of Meta-Wiki guideline into norsk bokmål language. It is a generally accepted standard that users should follow, though it should be treated with common sense and the occasional exception.
Please note that in the event of any differences in meaning or interpretation between the original English version of this guideline and a translation, the original English version takes precedence.

How long do we retain public data?

Wikimedia hosts Wikipedia and the associated projects as part of our mission to collect, document, and freely distribute the sum of human knowledge to the world. Accordingly, when you make a contribution to any Wikimedia Site, including on user or discussion pages, you are creating a permanent, public record of every piece of content added, removed, or altered by you. The page history will show when your contribution or deletion was made, as well as your username (if you are signed in) or your IP address (if you are not signed in). We may use your public contributions, either aggregated with the public contributions of others or individually, to create new features or data-related products for you, or to learn more about how the Wikimedia Sites are used. If you mistakenly included your personal information in a contribution to a Wikimedia Site and you would like to have it removed, please consult the community’s oversight policy. Keep in mind that the transparency and integrity of our sites’ revision histories is essential to our mission, and the Foundation supports our community’s right to reject oversight requests in order to protect the projects.

If you choose to register for an account with the Wikimedia projects, you will be asked to select a username. Usernames are retained until the user requests that the account be renamed, or goes through the community courtesy vanishing process.

(c) any personal information you disclose publicly on the Wikimedia Sites, such as your real name or age.

Some examples of types of information that are considered to be "nonpublic information" include:

(a) your IP address, if you edit while logged in;

(b) your email address, if you provided one to us during account registration (but didn’t post it publicly); and

(c) your general location information as might be derived from your IP address, if you have not posted it publicly. The types of information that are considered "nonpublic" as opposed to "public" are more fully explained in our Privacy Policy.

Data is "de-identified" when it has been aggregated or otherwise retained in a manner such that it can no longer be used to identify the user.

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When we conduct a survey or other research, we will provide you with a privacy statement specifying the term of retention for information (including personal information) collected through your participation in such research. In certain cases, information may be retained indefinitely for educational, development, or other related purposes, unless otherwise indicated in the relevant privacy statement. Such information may be retained in raw, aggregated, or de-identified form until we receive a request from the participant to delete the information.

New editor research: There is a short-term extension applying only to data stored as part of experimental pilot features around the retention of new editors. This is necessary because of the small samples of users involved in those experiments, and the value of data analysis across time periods greater than 90 days. The retained data will be deleted, aggregated, or de-identified within 270 days.

In rare cases, we, or particular users with certain administrative rights as described in our Privacy Policy, may need to retain your personal information, including your IP address and user agent information, for as long as reasonably necessary (which may be longer than the period described in the table above) to:

enforce or investigate potential violations of our Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, or any Foundation or user community-based policies;

investigate and defend ourselves against legal threats or actions;

help protect against vandalism and abuse, fight harassment of other users, and generally try to minimize disruptive behavior on the Wikimedia Sites;

prevent imminent and serious bodily harm or death to a person, or to protect our organization, employees, contractors, users, or the public; or

Audits and improvements

The Foundation is committed to continuous evaluation and improvement of these guidelines, and to periodic audits in order to identify such improvements. As we make changes to existing and systems, we will update these guidelines to reflect our changing practices.